Medium Animal Feces
Everyone poops. Can provide nitrogen to help crops grow in their plots. Would be more efficient fertilizer if combined with thatch in a bin.
Details
- Category
- Consumable
- Games
- ASE + ASA
- Expansion
- Base
- Item ID
- 282
Engram
How you unlock it
- Required level
- None
- Engram points
- 0
- How to unlock
- Drop / Event Item
Maps
Found on 14 maps
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Medium Animal Feces — Detailed Guide
Dung from mid-sized creatures
Medium Animal Feces is the dropping left by medium-sized creatures in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. The animals produce it by themselves now and then, and survivors collect it to feed their crops. The game's description puts it simply: "Can provide nitrogen to help crops grow in their plots." The ARK Wiki also notes that a survivor who eats it loses health.
Fertilizer for crop plots
One dropping put into a Crop Plot adds 7500 fertilization points. It can also go into a 
Compost Bin together with Thatch, where the two are turned into 
Fertilizer; the item's own text says it works more efficiently that way.
Creatures that leave it behind
The wiki names 
Parasaurs and Trikes as examples of such creatures, and its creature list is long: among others it names the 
Allosaurus, 
Argentavis, 
Dire Bear, 
Doedicurus, 
Megaloceros, 
Stegosaurus, 
Therizinosaur, 
Woolly Rhino and several kinds of 
Wyvern. For large amounts, the easiest route according to the wiki is a tamed 
Phiomia force-fed with Stimberries, which then relieves itself very often.
Spoilage and weight
A dropping spoils after 5050 seconds. Each one weighs 1.5, and they do not stack, since the stack size is 1. Our records place the item on 14 maps, from The Island and Scorched Earth to Lost Colony, Astraeos and Fjordur.